Re: How to track logfile switch

  • From: "Howard Latham" <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Lu.Jiang@xxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 15:48:34 +0100

Sometimes the io sub system is just struggling to keep up.

2008/10/3 Jiang, Lu <Lu.Jiang@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

>  According to Oracle Metalink note 
> 372557.1<https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=372557.1>
>  this
> can be ignored, this is expected behavior of 10g.
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Yavor Ivanov
> *Sent:* Friday, October 03, 2008 9:59 AM
> *To:* oracle-l
> *Subject:* FW: How to track logfile switch
>
>
>
>                 Forgot to say the version. It is 10.2.0.4
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> Regards,
>
> Yavor Ivanov
>
> Oracle Certified Master
>
>
>
> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Yavor Ivanov
> *Sent:* Friday, October 03, 2008 4:50 PM
> *To:* oracle-l
> *Subject:* How to track logfile switch
>
>
>
>                 Hello, gurus
>
>
>
>                 I have a strange problem. I am auditing a  system with 2
> node Oracle RAC on Solaris. I found in the alert log the following ugly
> message:
>
> *Thread Х cannot allocate new log, sequence ХХХХ*
>
>                 It happens may times. I started to dig inside the problem.
> I found that the system is setup with 2 redo logs per thread, each of them
> is 512 MB. I do not think this is wise, but this is not the problem. I
> noticed in v$archived_log that the size of archived logs (BLOCKS *
> BLOCK_SIZE) is somewhere between 1 and 3 MB (!), far less than 512 MB. Log
> switch is happening every 1-5 minutes.
>
>                 Am I missing something? It is Friday afternoon here, and
> everything seems to me so strange that I started to think I am missing
> something very major. I am using the following query to get the size of the
> files generated for some period:
>
> select l.THREAD#, l.SEQUENCE#, l.FIRST_TIME, l.NEXT_TIME, l.BLOCKS *
> l.BLOCK_SIZE / 1024 / 1024
>
>   from v$archived_log l
>
>  where round(next_time, 'HH24') = to_date('03.10.2008 10:00', 'DD.MM.YYYY
> HH24:MI')
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>                 Also I was hoping to catch who is making all this log
> switches using AFTER DDL ON DATABASE trigger, but the trigger does not
> fire for alter system switch logfile. Maybe this statement is not DDL. Can
> somebody see what am I missing?
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Yavor Ivanov
>
>
>



-- 
Howard A. Latham

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